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Book Review: Jesus in an age of enlightenment: Radical gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. By Jonathan C.P Birch [PDF]

, 2021
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in [Literature and Theology] following peer review. The version of record [Greenaway, J. (2021).
Greenaway, Jonathan
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Mind Your Ps, Ask Your Qs: a review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton

Canadian Food Studies, 2020
A book review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton, the companion publication to the Gardiner Museum exhibition, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. See this issue of CFS/RCÉA for Jennifer O'Connor's review of Savour.
David Szanto
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The 'ingenious' rev. Dr. John Walker: chemistry, mineralogy and geology in enlightenment Edinburgh (1740-1800) [PDF]

, 2003
Rev. Dr. John Walker (1731-1803) held the Regius Chair of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh's Medical School from 1779 until 1803. As a student of William Cullen, advisor to Lord Karnes and friend of Joseph Black, he went on to teach well ...
Eddy, Matthew Daniel
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Paryż w literaturze polskiego oświecenia (kilka uwag)

Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 2020
In literature, during the Polish Age of Enlightenment, the word Paris was above all a ‘label’, that symbolised an incredible town that provoked representatives of the Polish establishment to behave foolishly.
Janusz Ryba
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Religion and tolerance: Thematization of the relationship in the age of enlightenment [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2013
This paper presents the two competing models of Enlightenment tolerance and testing their status and scope. In the first part of the paper the author points out the limits of moderate Enlightenment’s “religious tolerance” as represented by Locke and ...
Krstić Predrag
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Cicero, Voltaire and the Bible: French Best-Sellers in the Age of Enlightenment?*

Knygotyra, 2022
Since the early twentieth century, when Daniel Mornet conducted his path-breaking survey of private library catalogues in an attempt to determine what people read during the enlightenment, historians have debated how to identify the best-selling texts ...
Simon Burrows
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The Godwinian psychology of hope and its legacy in the work of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley [PDF]

, 2006
This thesis examines the work of William Godwin in terms of a conjunction between secular Enlightenment optimism and the psychology of Christian hope. This conjunction produced his particular inflection of human perfectibility, where the idea of liberal ...
Morgan, John Charles
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Electricity in the Age of Enlightenment

, 2014
The author gives a review of the historical development of electricity during the Age of Enlightenment (1600-1800), including work from William Gilbert to Benjamin ...
GUARNIERI, MASSIMO
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L’histoire naturelle de l’Homme au Siècle des lumières

Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines
In autumn 2014, as part of a public lectures series at the National Museum of Natural History (Paris) (“Rendez-vous du Muséum”), Claude Blanckaert gave three lectures analysing the anthropology of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), his ...
Claude Blanckaert
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French Women and the Age of Enlightenment

, 1992
French Women And The Age Of Enlightenment presents a stimulating portrait of women at the most crucial and paradoxical moment in French and world history.

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